ART WABER, PRESIDENT - ARTSOURCE MANAGEMENT LLC (EST. 1997)

Art Waber has over 25 years of experience as a professional arts administrator, booking manager, arts management consultant, and fundraiser. He is currently President of Artsource Management LLC, a tour booking and arts management consulting firm. Artsource Management has been chosen to coordinate five National Dance Project (NDP) tours over the past eight seasons, including the groundbreaking tour of "Eclipse: Visions of the Crescent and the Cross" with Forces of Nature Dance Theatre Company. Crescent/Cross will continue to tour through the 2009-2010 season. Other assignments include tour booking for Michael Bashaw's Theatre of Sound, Rhythm In Shoes, Quasar Dance Company (Brazil), Teatro De Ciertos Habitantes, with their Latin ACE Award-winning production of "Monstruos Y Prodigios: La Historia De Los Castrati", touring in 2008-2009 and 2009-2010, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company with this year's American Masterpieces Dance-funded tour of the legendary Alwin Nikolais repertory, Canadian JUNO Award-winning guitarist Robert Michaels, and BalletX, one of America's most promising contemporary ballet companies with PennPAT support through 2010.

He served for three years as the Residency Resource Team Manager for the Ford Foundation-funded Africa Exchange Program, and was a consultant for the Arts International Contextualization/ Translation project featuring the critically-acclaimed film-theatre work, El Automóvil Gris (The Grey Car).  Created and produced by the leading Mexican playwright Claudio Valdes Kuri, El Auto most recently toured the U.S. with support from ArtésAmericas.

Previous assignments include the American Dance Festival where he directed the ADF On Tour project, booking performances and tours for the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (including a touring team of humanities scholars), Nucleodanza (Argentina), along with pre-tour planning for the first U.S. tour of the Guangdong Modern Dance Company (China).  In 1999 he returned to direct the USIA-funded International Arts Management/Cultural Tourism (IAM) program at ADF. He also served for five years as the Executive Director of the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company.

Mr. Waber has independently produced a variety of dance and theatrical performances.  He has also created and managed needs assessment and design plans for small community-based arts centers, audience surveys for a variety of arts and public broadcasting organizations, community cultural inventories and assessments, and business planning for arts organizations. Panelist assignments have included the Durham Arts Council, North Carolina Arts Council, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Arts Partners Program, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Arts Midwest, Arts International and other organizations.

Professional affiliations include the North American Association of Performing Arts Managers and Agents, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Western Arts Alliance, Arts Midwest (Co-Chair: 2007 Arts Midwest Conference), and Dance/USA.